1. Military affairs a. Short range rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. Several smuggling tunnels from Egypt into Gaza were bombed. 2. Middle Eastern diplomacy a. Israeli relations with Turkey continue to be an issue. i. Turkish military sources now claim that Israeli participation in the Anatolian Eagle air force exercises was canceled due […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) An Arab driver who killed a little Jewish girl riding her bicycle near the synagogue in Kfar Tavor on Yom Kippur Eve in 2007 was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday. His accomplice was sentenced to just two years in jail, longer than the time that has already passed […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor (Likud) denied there is terror in Yehudah and Shomron (Judea and Samaria), despite recent attacks, and said Israel must back the Palestinian Authority (PA) to satisfy expectations because “creating hopes and then frustrating them is very dangerous.” Speaking at the fall conference of the Washington Institute […]

1. Scientists in Israel , found that the brackish water, drilled from underground desert aquifers, hundreds of feet deep, could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as saline as sea water, free of pollutants, and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proves an ideal environment. 2. Israel i-developed designer-eyeglasses, […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country will soon assume the European Union presidency, met Thursday with President Shimon Peres and discussed Israel-PA negotiations. Zapatero expressed interest in increasing his country’s role in Israel-PA talks, particularly once Spain takes on EU leadership. “We will not allow this period to […]

by Yoni Kempinski (Israelnationalnews.com) Muslim terrorists’ newest nightmare? Steadicopter, an Israeli company, has developed an unmanned helicopter using patented technology that enables the chopper to stay stable while airborne. The new technology was on display at ISDEF 3 – the third annual Israel defense show, currently being held at Tel Aviv’s fairgrounds. The developers said […]

(Israelnationalnews.com) Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday expressed his grave disappointment with Turkey’s attitude toward Israel in recent days and called for the Muslim nation to “wake up.” Shalom noted that “Turkey is an important and Muslim nation that has strategic ties with Israel,” and said that the deterioration of relations between the two […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Weapons are flowing freely into Shechem and other Palestinian Authority-controlled towns in Samaria thanks to the recent removal of IDF checkpoints. So reports a senior IDF source who spoke to the Hebrew-language Arutz Sheva this week on condition of anonymity. The weapons come to Shechem from the south, the source explained. […]

by Zalman Nelson (Israelnationalnews.com) Prof. Ada Yonath of Israel has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, it was announced Wednesday. She and two Americans, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz, were awarded the prize for “studies of the structure of the ribosome” which translates the DNA code into life. According to the Royal Swedish Academy […]